hehe I have reason to start listening to Blind Guardian now that we have Marcus here

I am fond of german metal, when I grew up there were Accept and Scorpions - I kept them very high up there - and later on Helloween, Rammstein aswell for that matter.The little I've heard from Blind Guardian sounds like a tad influenced by Helloween, I could be all wrong though since I only listened to a couple songs at youtube just the other day not much to build facts from.

I completely agree with you, except when you say that thomen's best work is on anato.. hope he doesn't read it, or you are a dead bard! joking

By the way, I think that Imaginations is the best album of BG, it's my favorite. Just Nightfall can compete with it in my opinion, but even if nightfall is a great album, imaginations has the highest and purest expression of "bg sounds".